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An Indonesian History: Personalized Politics in Makassar and South Sulawesi, c.1600-2018

Just published! Heather Sutherland How does the deep history of a region shape its contemporary politics? Why do some areas remain stubbornly resistant to central control, generation after generation? And how do centuries-old power dynamics persist even as empires rise...

Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art

Winner of the 2024 UNIMA USA Nancy Staub Award! by Kathryn 'Kitsie' Emerson Wayang fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium — as bearer of Javanese culture and tradition, as key component of rites...

Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 3

By Ellen Rafferty and Molly Burns and Shintia Argazali-Thomas Indonesian Grammar in Context (Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Indonesian in three richly illustrated volumes. Although numerous varieties...

Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 2

By Ellen Rafferty and Molly Burns and Shintia Argazali-Thomas Indonesian Grammar in Context (Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Indonesian in three richly illustrated volumes. Although numerous varieties...

Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 1

By Ellen Rafferty and Molly Burns and Shintia Argazali-Thomas Indonesian Grammar in Context (Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Indonesian in three richly illustrated volumes. Although numerous varieties...

To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the 20th Century

By Anthony Reid The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance...

China and the Shaping of Indonesia

By Hong Liu The interactions and mutual perceptions of China and Indonesia were a significant element in Asia's postcolonial transformation, but as a result of prevailing emphasis on diplomatic and political relations within a Cold War and nation-state framework, their...

Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia: Indonesian Nationalists and the Worldwide Anticolonial Movement, 1917–1931

by Klaas Stutje Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia explores Indonesian transnational political networks in the late colonial period, connecting the history of Indonesian nationalism with that of anticolonial internationalism and transnational activism. This book adds an international dimension to our...

Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia

By Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam, gender, and...

Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia

By John T. Sidel The October 2002 bombing of a Balinese nightclub and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta brought Indonesia into the spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence, but the complexities of political and...

Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia

Edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Khan Processes of transformation typically defined as "modernising" have been pervasive in Indonesia and Malaysia over an extended period of time and have played a central role in shaping the societies of both...

Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State

ICAS Humanities Book Prize 2019: Ground Breaking AccoladeA Choice Recommended Title By John G. Butcher and R.E. Elson   Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were as open to the ships...

The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia: 1965-1968

Edited by Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor The violence directed against the political left in Indonesia from 1965 until 1968 has been the subject of intense speculation. The large number of deaths, brutal interrogations, as well as rape, torture, short-...

Indonesia in the Soeharto Years: Issues, Incidents and Images

By LONTAR Foundation During much of General Soeharto's 32 year reign as president (1967-98), Indonesia was seen as a successful test case in Third World development, a wayward pariah turned into a shining example of modern economic planning and democracy....

Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia

Winner: ICAS Book Prize 2023 Art Book Accolade Elly Kent Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia’s vibrant art world, this book examines why so many artists in the world’s largest archipelagic nation choose to work directly...

Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia

  Catherine Smith The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Indonesia, a region with a long history of violent conflict. In this book, Catherine Smith examines the global reach of the...

Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-1999

By Jemma Purdey Indonesians of Chinese descent constitute only two to three per cent of the country's population but dominate the private business sector. Serious acts of violence against this ethnic minority occurred during Indonesia's colonial past, and after a...

Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia

by Vannessa HearmanWinner - 2020 Early Career Book Prize, ASAA (Asian Studies Association of Australia)   The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds...

Surviving Against The Odds: Village Industry In Indonesia

By S. Ann Dunham, Edited by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries, including Indonesia. When Dunham married Lolo Soetoro...

Bridges to New Business: The Economic Decolonization of Indonesia

By J. Thomas Lindblad This monograph is the first comprehensive account of the decolonization of the Indonesian economy, a process with a different momentum and timing from the achievement of political independence. It traces the origins of economic decolonization to...

Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

By Marcus Mietzner ebook available at:    and Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia’s young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country’s...

Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia

by Geneviève Duggan and Hans Hägerdal This book demonstrates the possibilities of writing history based on bridging traditional archival historical evidence with evidence from oral sources and anthropological work, especially relevant for Austronesian societies where genealogical information is preserved in many...

The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941

Takashi Shiraishi A Choice Recommended Title Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners established in 1926, upriver in West Papua. It is the key to understanding Indonesia’s colonial rule between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the fall...

Networked: Business and Politics in Decentralizing Indonesia, 1998-2004

by Wahyu Prasetyawan After the fall of Suharto in Indonesia in 1998, the new government under B.J. Habibie introduced a decentralization policy that dramatically changed relations between the central and local governments. Under decentralization, local governments engaged in bureaucratic and political...

Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia

edited by Astrid Norén-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani and Anders Uhlin This innovative volume is the first systematic study of civil society elites in Southeast Asia (and indeed anywhere in the world). Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society...

Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration from Indonesia

by Olivia Killias This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant...

Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia

By Christopher R. Duncan Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries...

Performing the Nation: Cultural Politics in New Order Indonesia

by Jörgen Hellman In sharp contrast to today’s disorder was the apparent cohesion and stability of Indonesia during much of the New Order period (1965–1998). While Suharto’s authoritarian rule was significant, the regime’s cultural policies also played their part. Ethnic,...

Of Self and Injustice: Autobiography and Repression in Modern Indonesia

By C. W. Watson Since the downfall of Soeharto in 1998 many autobiographical writings have appeared in Indonesia from the pens of those who were marginalized by his so-called New Order regime. This book examines representative autobiographies of several such...

Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia

Edited by Kathryn M. Robinson With contributions from Adlin Sila, Wahyuddin Halim, Faried F. Saenong, Eva Nisa, Yasir Alimi, Stella Hutagalung, Andrew McWilliam, Phillip Winn Islam is at home in many of the areas of eastern Indonesia, with the early...

Chinese Ways of Being Muslim: Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity in Indonesia

by Hew Wai Weng Many recent works on Muslim societies have pointed to a growing 'deculturalization’ and 'purification’ of Islamic practices. Instead, by exploring themes such as architectural designs, preaching activities, political engagement and cultural celebrations, this book describes and...

Islam and Politics in Indonesia: The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism

By Rémy Madinier The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a literalist application...

The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia: From Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah

By Solahudin, Translated by Dave McRae This groundbreaking book shows with rare clarity that Indonesia's current terrorist problems have a long and complex history. Based on a remarkable array of sources, many of which have never been publicly cited, Solahudin's...

Democratizing Indonesia: The Challenges of Civil Society in the Era of Reformasi

by Mikaela Nyman The fall of Suharto has drawn much media and academic attention but the focus has been on the elite perspective, the role of the regime and military, and little has been published on civil society. Gender issues...

Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia

By Edward Aspinall Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on...

Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia

By Fenneke Sysling Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices. The way such matters are understood is partly rooted in ideas developed by racial scientists...